Nico Rosberg [L] Lewis Hamilton[ R]; Toto Wolff (inset) | Getty
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said this week that he and Lewis Hamilton did not talk to each other for weeks after the latter's intense title battle with teammate Nico Rosberg. The 2016 season saw one of the most intense rivalries developing between drivers from the same team in recent history.
For three years, Hamilton and Rosberg went hammer-and-tongs against each other, which eventually led to the latter's retirement in 2016 and the souring of the duo's childhood friendship after the seven-time world champion could not prevent the German driver from notching his first and only title in F1 that year.
During his appearance on the "High Performance" podcast, Wolff spoke about learning "constant self-development" from Lewis Hamilton while telling the tale of the silence between the two in the weeks after the 2016 Abu Dhabi GP. Asked what he had learnt from Hamilton, Wolff said,
